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Contents
- Front Matter
- Volume 1 The scope of public health
- Section 1 The development of the discipline of public health
- 1.1 The scope and concerns of public health
- 1.2 The history and development of public health in developed countries
- 1.3 The history and development of public health in low- and middle-income countries
- 1.4 The development of the discipline of public health in countries in economic transition: India, Brazil, China
- Section 2 Determinants of health and disease
- 2.1 Globalization
- 2.2 Overview and framework
- 2.3 Behavioural determinants of health and disease
- 2.4 Genomics and public health
- 2.5 Water and sanitation
- 2.6 Food and nutrition
- 2.7 Infectious diseases
- 2.8 The global environment
- 2.9 Health services as determinants of population health
- 2.10 Assessing health needs: The global burden of disease approach
- Section 3 Public health policies
- Section 4 Public health law and ethics
- Section 1 The development of the discipline of public health
- Volume 2 The methods of public health
- Section 5 Information systems and sources of intelligence
- Section 6 Epidemiological and biostatistical approaches
- 6.1 Epidemiology: The foundation of public health
- 6.2 Ecologic variables, ecologic studies, and multilevel studies in public health research
- 6.3 Cross-sectional studies
- 6.4 Principles of outbreak investigation
- 6.5 Case–control studies
- 6.6 Cohort studis
- 6.7 Methodology of intervention trials in individuals
- 6.8 Methodological issues in the design and analysis of community intervention trials
- 6.9 Community-based intervention studies in high-income countries
- 6.10 Community-based intervention trials in low- and middle-income countries
- 6.11 Clinical epidemiology
- 6.12 Validity and bias in epidemiological research
- 6.13 Causation and causal inference
- 6.14 Systematic reviews and meta-analysis
- 6.15 Statistical methods
- 6.16 Mathematical models of transmission and control
- 6.17 Public health surveillance
- Section 7 Social science techniques
- 7.1 Sociology and psychology in public health
- 7.2 Demography and public health
- 7.3 Health promotion, health education, and the public’s health
- 7.4 Cost-effectiveness analysis: Concepts and applications
- 7.5 Governance and management of public health programmes
- 7.6 Public health sciences and policy in high-income countries
- 7.7 Public health sciences and policy in low-and middle-income countries
- Section 8 Environmental and occupational health sciences
- 8.1 Environmental health issues in public health
- 8.2 Radiation and public health
- 8.3 Control of microbial threats: Population surveillance, vaccine studies, and the microbiological laboratory
- 8.4 The science of human exposures to contaminants in the environment
- 8.5 Occupational health
- 8.6 Ergonomics and public health
- 8.7 Toxicology and risk assessment in the analysis and management of environmental risk
- 8.8 Risk perception and communication
- Volume 3 The practice of public health
- Section 9 Major health problems
- 9.1 Gene–environment interactions and public health
- 9.2 Cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases
- 9.3 Neoplasms
- 9.4 Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and asthma
- 9.5 Obesity
- 9.6 The epidemiology and prevention of diabetes mellitus
- 9.7 Public mental health
- 9.8 Dental public health
- 9.9 Musculoskeletal diseases
- 9.10 Neurologic diseases, epidemiology, and public health
- 9.11 The transmissible spongiform encephalopathies
- 9.12 Sexually transmitted infections
- 9.13 Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome
- 9.14 Tuberculosis
- 9.15 Malaria
- 9.16 Chronic hepatitis and other liver disease
- 9.17 Emerging and re-emerging infections
- Section 10 Prevention and control of public health hazards
- Section 11 Public health needs of population groups
- Section 12 Public health functions
- 12.1 Need: What is it and how do we measure it?
- 12.2 Needs assessment: A practical approach
- 12.3 Socioeconomic inequalities in health in high-income countries: The facts and the options
- 12.4 Reducing health inequalities in developing countries
- 12.5 Prevention and control of chronic, non-communicable diseases
- 12.6 Principles of infectious disease control
- 12.7 Population screening and public health
- 12.8 Environmental health practice
- 12.9 Structures and strategies for public health intervention
- 12.10 Strategies for health services
- 12.11 Public health workers
- 12.12 Planning for and responding to public health needs in emergencies and disasters
- 12.13 Private support of public health
- 12.14 Global health agenda for the twenty-first century
- Section 9 Major health problems
- End Matter